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with beautifully-marked wings, frequently flies into houses at night, 
and alights on the walls or ceiling of a room. It appears to 
inhabit the high land, and I have often seen it at The Hermitage. 
Mr. Walker gives the following description of it : — “ Female hoary, 
minutely speckled with black. Head with a narrow black band 
between the eyes. Palpi black, obliquely ascending, not rising to 
the height of the vertex ; third joint extremely minute. Abdomen 
above tinged with brown, except along the hind border of each seg- 
ment. Wings mostly tinged with brown ; each with a black dot in 
the disk and with an exterior undulating oblique white line which 
is partly and broadly bordered with blackish-brown on the inner 
side ; marginal lunules black. Underside cinereous ; a very broad 
space along the exterior border shaded with brown and including a 
hoary undulating line. Length of the body four and a half lines ; 
expansion of the forewings eleven lines.” 
*A. atlantica, Walk. — An equally beautiful but somewhat 
smaller species than the last, with similar habits. The following is 
the description by Mr. Walker: — “ Male and female hoary, minutely 
speckled with black. Head black, except the vertex, which is white. 
Antennae of the male testaceous, thickly setose. Wings with a black 
dot in each disk ; four zigzag oblique and undulating brown lines ; 
first line near the base ; second close to the outer side of the dot, 
more faint than the others ; third and fourth parallel and near to 
each other, at half the distance between the dot and the exterior 
border ; marginal lunules black. Underside with similar but less 
distinct markings. Var. B. white ; the space between the third and 
fourth lines brown, and thus forming a band which is bordered with 
black on the inner side. Length of the body three and a half to 
four lines; expansion of the forewings ten to eleven lines.” 
Fam. Fidonidce. 
Sterrha, Hiibn. 
S. saeraria, Linn. — This very pretty, pale-vellow or almost 
white Moth, with brown bands across the wings, is not very abun- 
dant; but on a damp sunny day I have seen it in considerable 
numbers flying about amongst the short grass near Cleugh’s Plain. 
It inhabits also South Europe, North Africa, West Africa, South 
Africa, and Hindostan. 
